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Re: Real "lights" in town?
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lugnet.town
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Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:04:35 GMT
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In lugnet.town, John Gerlach writes:
> In lugnet.town, Kevin Cheng writes:
> <snip>
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> > Great! That sounds pretty easy, the only thing I'm worried about is that
> > the bricks would melt if I made a series of stadium lights near each other.
> >
> > Kevin
> Actually, LED lights put out almost *no* heat, so you shouldn't have any
> problems. The GMLTC uses LEDs all over our layout, and we have no problems
> with them getting too warm.
John, can it be true that the amount of heat a LED puts out varies according
to the "model" (I dunno if I can refer to LEDs as if they were cars, do they
really have different models with different performances)?
I have seen LEDs getting hot, although I dunno if they were working ok.
Pedro
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| In lugnet.town, Kevin Cheng writes: <snip> (...) Actually, LED lights put out almost *no* heat, so you shouldn't have any problems. The GMLTC uses LEDs all over our layout, and we have no problems with them getting too warm. Now our 3volt (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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